HOW TO BE GOOD IN “HOW TO BE GOOD” BY NICK HORNBY, AN ETHICAL VIEW TOWARDS PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE

Nick Hornby’s novel, How to be good (2001) is a great example of a novel which has different moral attitudes inside, it represents unhappy marriage of a couple, Katie Carr and her husband David. Hornby provides the reader with a complicated question of what it means to be good and represents different understanding of goodness by each character in the course of novel. Work within the frame work of Ethical theory, this study aims to examine the notion of moderate moralities proposed by Frances Kamm in How to Be Good. It investigates the modern understanding of goodness and maps the relation between family life and moral obligation. In so doing, this paper includes the analysis of moderate or ordinary morality and its application in the novel and the ways in which the notion of what means to be “good” represented in the novel.